Jack Nyquist

Position:
Diving
Height:
5-8
Weight:
null
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Alpharetta, Ga.
High School:
Alpharetta

JACK NYQUIST BIO

Best Scores: 407.95 in one-meter diving; 445.73 in three-meter diving; 302.70 points in platform diving.

General: Set the Carolina one-meter diving record at the 2014 ACC Championships with a score of 398.30 points…ranks second all-time at Carolina in three-meter diving with 436.58 points…member of Veteran Leaders program in Carolina Leadership Academy…Student-Athlete Advisory council member…Carolina Outreach involvement…USA Diving athlete representative.

2016-17: Team co-captain with Matt Conway.

2015-16: Member of All-ACC Team…at the ACC Championships, he placed second in three-meter diving with a score of 435.60 points…was also the conference runner-up in one-meter diving with a score of 407.95…2016 NCAA qualifier and first-team All-America…placed sixth at the NCAA Championships in three-meter diving with score of 409.55 points.…named to 2015-16 ACC All-Academic Team…winner of the McInnis Diving Award as the team’s Most Outstanding Diver…also won the squad’s Patrick & Mary Louise Earey Service Award…took a pair of third place finishes at NCAA zone diving championships with 786.15 on three-meter board and 711.35 on one-meter board…won one-meter (375.75) and three-meter (445.73) diving in dual meet against Georgia…won three-meter diving in dual meet against Louisville with a score of 421.13 points…was named ACC Men’s Diver of the Week on October 13, 2016 and November 10, 2016…triumphed in one-meter diving at 2015 Nike Cup with a score of 368.75 points…also won three-meter diving with a score of 374.15 points…was rewarded with ACC Men’s Diver of the Week award on November 24, 2015…won the one-meter diving against Navy (363.35)…took 1^st place in three-meter diving in dual meet against NCSU & UVA, scoring 399.45 points…swept the 1-meter (359.55) and 3-meter (444.75) diving events against Duke…tapped as ACC Men’s Diver of the Week on February 2, 2016… named to ACC Academic Honor Roll.

2014-15: Dove for Team USA at 2015 World University Games...finished 10th in three-meter diving event...he was the first Tar Heel diver to ever qualify for a U.S. team competing at a major international event...honorable mention All-America in both one-meter and three-meter diving...placed 11th in three-meter diving (432.10) and 12th in one-meter (383.80)...first Tar Heel to score in two diving events at NCAA Championships since 1948...he qualified for NCAA Championships with Ryan Fox, the first time two Tar Heels went to nationals in the same year...at 2015 ACC Championships he took fourth on three-meter (375.85), fifth on one-meter (316.75) and ninth on platform (302.70)...had outstanding performance at NCAA Zone B Diving meet, taking second in three-meter event and fourth on one-meter board...named ACC Diver of the Week on five occasions - October 14 & 21 and November 11, 2014 and January 12 and February 3, 2015...at 2014 Nike Cup, he placed third in one-meter diving and second in three-meter diving...captured one-meter event versus Tennessee, Virginia Tech & Virginia...swept diving events against Georgia, Louisville, Navy & Duke...captured three Top 15 finishes at 2014 USA Diving Winter National Championships - fifth place in men’s synchronized three-meter, 10th in three-meter and 15th in one-meter...won the David McInnis Award as the squad’s most outstanding diver...named to 2014-15 ACC Academic Honor Roll...in summer 2014, he took eighth place on three-meter board at Senior Nationals.

2013-14: Broke the school record with a score of 398.30 points in one-meter diving at the ACC Championships...finalist in two events at the U.S. Diving Nationals in summer of 2014…he finished fourth in three-meter synchronized with Michael Mosca from Harvard and was fifth in three-meter and 10th in one-meter as an individual…named to 2013-14 ACC Academic Honor Roll…won one-meter (379.90) and three-meter (423.15) at 2014 USA Diving National Preliminary Championships in Bethesda, Md. …CSCAA Individual Scholar All-America first-team selection…2014 All-ACC selection in one-meter diving…named the Most Outstanding Diver on the Tar Heel team…named to All-ACC Academic Team…earned honorable mention All-America honors…NCAA qualifier…placed 16th in the three-meter (372.55) and 17th in one-meter (331.00) at the 2014 NCAA Division I Championships…placed third in the three-meter diving (783.20) at the 2014 NCAA Zone B Diving Championships…at the ACC Championships, he finished third in the one-meter (398.30), where he set the UNC school record, and sixth in the three-meter (399.40)…won the one-meter (326.18) and three-meter (378.98) in January meet against NC State…named ACC Men’s Diver of the Week on January 28, 2014…won the three-meter (385.50) in meet against Virginia…won the one-meter (375.15) and three-meter (433.35) in meet against Navy…finished 10th in three-meter synchronized diving at the U.S. Diving Winter National Championships in December 2013…at November’s Nike Cup, he placed second in the three-meter (405.00), second in one-meter (394.45) and ninth in platform diving (173.70)…named ACC Men’s Diver of the Week on October 22, 2013…won the one-meter (338.18) and three-meter (416.18) in meet against TCU…won the three-meter (436.58) in meet against Texas…named to Dean’s List in 2014 spring semester…active in Carolina Outreach.

Prep: Nine-year veteran of club diving…attended Alpharetta High School where he was coached by Emily Santowski and competed from 2009-13…three-time high school state champion…three-time high school All-America selection…in 2012, he set the Georgia one-meter state record with a score of 629.80 points for 11 dives...a national level diver who competed for the Atlanta Diving Association where he was coached by John Ames…excelled at the 2013 U.S. Junior National Championships where he was second on the three-meter board and third on the one-meter board…2012 U.S. Diving Junior National Team member…finished second in the 2012 U.S. Diving Junior National Championships in three-meter diving and fifth in the same event in one-meter diving…at the 2012 AT&T National Championships senior level meet, he placed seventh in one-meter diving…Nyquist and Steele Johnson placed ninth in three-meter synchronized diving at the 2012 FINA World Junior Diving Championships…individually, he placed ninth on three-meter springboard at the 2012 world juniors.

Personal: Full name is John Killion Nyquist…is the son of Bob Nyquist (father), Kristen Hall (mother) and Jim Hall (stepfather)…was born February 21, 1995 in Atlanta, Ga. …goes by Jack…biology major…stands 5-8 tall…member of Young Men’s Service League…is one of six children…his older brother Eric is a senior pitcher for the Mercer University baseball team.